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Georgia's post-accession structural reform challenges

Arveladze, G.; Smeets, Maarten - 2017 - Manuscript date: May 2017

The process leading to WTO accession is complex, requires solid domestic coordination mechanisms in the acceding country, a rethinking of its economic and trade policies and significant domestic structural reforms. It often implies the creation of new institutions designed to coordinate and...

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Trade in mineral resources

Davis, Graham A. - 2010

moves on to the five topics requested by the World Trade Organization: theoretical and empirical literature on international …

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The role of WTO committees through the lens of specific trade concerns raised in the TBT committee

Cassehgari Posada, Kian; Ganne, Emmanuelle; … - 2020 - Manuscript date: 24 April 2020

In this paper we provide some evidence of the common claim that STCs improve transparency and monitoring as well as help mitigate trade conflicts. We analyse the content of 555 STCs raised in the TBT committee in the period 1995-2018. We find that: (i) STCs are used to acquire new and higher...

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"Agricultural products" and "fishery products" in the GATT and WTO : a history of relevant discussions on product scope during negotiations

Pene, Cédric; Zhu, Xiaolu - 2021 - Manuscript date: 18 March 2021

the context of the negotiations leading to and during the GATT period up to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, and some … of its implications for WTO negotiations. The paper reviews documents emanating from past trade negotiations, including … minutes and reports of meetings, Members' submissions, draft and final texts from negotiations, as well as background notes by …

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Tariff spillovers and new rules for multilateral tariff negotiations

Bekkers, Eddy; Keck, Alexander - 2024 - Manuscript date: 12 February 2024

subsequent WTO accessions, an important question for the future of multilateral trade negotiations may be how cross …

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Trade policy implications of a changing world : tariffs and import market power

Jakubik, Adam; Keck, Alexander; Piermartini, Roberta - 2022 - Manuscript date: 3 November 2022

the time of negotiations. However, as countries grow, their market power in different sectors can change in unforeseen … negotiations, and our findings support the revival of the WTO's negotiation function in this area. …

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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...

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Export licensing in the WTO context

Gamberale, Carlo; Tarasenko, Irina - 2023 - Manuscript date: 15 September 2023

This paper addresses the issue of export licensing procedures in the WTO context. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the existing rules applicable to export licensing in the WTO, and what the development of specific disciplines would mean to international trade. The paper looks at the...

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The value of bindings

Bacchetta, Marc; Piermartini, Roberta - 2011 - Manuscript date: 26 September 2011

commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

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Institutions, trade policy and trade flows

Jansen, Marion; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: April 2004

This paper analyses to which extent domestic institutions affect trade flows. We use two complementary approaches, one focusing on the size of total trade flows and one focusing on bilateral trade patterns (gravity equation). Besides, we control for two other domestic policy variables: trade...

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